Collar tip construction



1959 T. D. AINSLIE 2,909,783

COLLAR TIP CONSTRUCTION Filed May 5, 1956 2 FIGJ. FIG.2.

IN VEN TOR.

77/0 MAS 00 luvs-L aiiforggg United States Patent I 2,909,783 COLLAR TIPCONSTRUCTION Thomas Dow Ainslie, Metuchen, N.J., assignor to Philgps-VanHeusen Corporation, a corporation of New ork Application May 3, 1956,Serial No. 582,521

3 Claims. c1. 2-131 invention relates to collars, and particularly tothose of the type which are permanently or detachably applied to mensshirts. It is one of the objects of the invention to provide a collar ofimproved appearance; to provide one which will have less bulk orthickness and particularly at the tips or extremities of the collar, andwhich will be longer lasting.

It is another object of the invention to provide an improved collar, andparticularly in the tips or extremities thereof, and which providethinner and flatter points; which enables the points to be made withouta selvage edge and which will prevent raveling.

More particularly, the invention contemplates a collar body ofsubstantially heavy material, such as duck or a multiply fabric, and inwhich the pointed extremities of the body are cut off and are replacedby a stitched-on section of a considerably thinner and softer, butwearresistant material, such as binding tape. As a result, when thecollar body is finished along its edges and at the points thereof, thepoints will be primarily formed by the stitched-on sections'which can becompactly folded into position and will result in much thinner, flatterand more tapering points than would be the case if parts of the body ofthe collar were used for the formation of such elements.

With the above objects, and other objects to be hereinafter set forth inview, I have devised the arrangement of parts to be described and moreparticularly pointed out in the claims appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawing, wherein an illustrative embodiment of theinvention is disclosed,

Fig. 1 is a face view of one end portion of a collar blank, showing thecut-oif tip or extremity;

Fig. 2 is a similar view, looking at the outside face of the part of theblank, showing the added tip portion and the bindings applied;

Fig. 3 is a face view of the supplemental tip portion;

Fig. 4 is a view of the construction shown in Fig. 2, looking at thereverse side thereof;

Fig. 5 is a view, looking at the inside face of the finished collar;

Fig. 5 is a view of the reverse side of Fig. 5.

Fig. 7 is a sectional view, taken substantially on the line 77 of Fig.4, looking in the direction of the arrows, and

Fig. 8 is a sectional view, taken substantially on the line 88 of Fig.2, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Referring to the drawing, 1 indicates one end of a collar blank for theproduction of a collar such as is applied to mens shirts. It will beunderstood that the collar may be of any of the conventional shapesknown in the trade, and that both ends of the collar blank are alike andare substantially shaped as shown in Fig. l.

The upper edge of the collar, or that which is attached in the collarband of a shirt, is that indicated at 2; the lower edge of the collarbeing that indicated at 3, and the forward edge shown at 4. It will benoted that the 2,909,783 Patented Oct. 27, 1959 blank 1 departs fromconventional collar construction by having its normally pointed tip orextremity cut away sharply and angularly to provide the edge indicatedat 5.

The body of the collar may be made of a relatively heavy material suchas duck, or may be composed of a multi-ply material of considerablethickness and weight, and I have found that the production of pointedtips or extremities on collars composed of such materials may bematerially improved, by substituting for the body of the collar in suchtips, a considerably lighter and thinner material. With this in view, areplacement or terminal piece, indicated at 6 and clearly shown in Fig.3, has its selvaged edge 7 stitched to the edge 5 of the collar blank bythe line of stitching indicated at 8. As a result, the section offabric, or replacement piece 6, constitutes a sewed-on extension of thetip portion of the collar blank and actually forms the tip or pointedextremity ofthe finished collar, substantially as shown in Fig. 6. The

thereto as indicated at 8, the edges 3 and 4 of the blank are bound bythe binding tapes indicated respectively at 9 and 10. The binding tapeshown at 9 is stitched to the front edge 4 as indicated by the line ofstitching 11, while the binding tape shown at 10 is stitched over thelower edge 3 by the line of stitching indicated at 12. The tapes 9 and10 also extend over and are secured to the edges 13 and 14 of the piece6.

The blank is now in condition as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, whereupon thereinforced edges 3 and 4 are inturned adjacent to the bindings 9 and 10in a manner to bring the bindings 9 and 10 to the rear face of the blankso that the same are concealed and are invisible from the front, as willbe apparent from Fig. 6 wherein an outer face view of the finishedcollar is shown. When the bound edges 3 and 4 are inturned as abovedescribed, stitching 15 is extended through these inturned edges in amanner to retain the inturned condition of the edges, the lines ofstitching 15 being the only stitching visible on the outside of thecollar as will be apparent from Fig. 6.

As the edge portions of the collar blank are inturned in the mannerdescribed, the terminal pieces 6 are infolded in a manner to form thetips, substantially as indicated at 16 in Fig. 6. Due to the fact thatthese terminal portions are made of relatively thin and easily foldablematerial, the pointed extremities of the collar formed from it will berelatively sharp, flat and strong.

The nature of the material employed for these terminals can be such asto make the tips of the collar non-r'avelling. Thus, the blank fromwhich the collar is made need not have a selvage edge in these tipportions.

Having described a single embodiment of the invention, it is obviousthat the same is not to be restricted thereto, but is broad enough tocover all structures coming within the scope of the annexed claims.

What I claim is:

1. A tipped collar having a collar body provided with several edgeshaving bindings, a tip extension of material thinner than that of thebody of the collar, said extension being sewed on an end of the collarbody to form an extended, relatively pointed terminal piece thereon, theseveral edges of the body converging and forming a part of the tip ofthe collar to which the said extension is attached, said tip extensionhaving converging side edges folded along lines parallel to thecollarbody edges to form a pointed tip for the collar, said fold linesintersecting within the body of the tip extension, said tip extensionprojecting beyond the end of the collar to which it is secured, thebindings being applied over and secured to a plurality of edges of thetip extension, the bindings and the portions of the tip extensionembraced by them being inturned to concealed position behind the collarbody, said inturned portions being stitched to the collar body.

2. A collar having a body composed of relatively heavy fabric, said bodyhaving its lower and forward edges converging to meet a truncatedterminal edge, a triangulated terminal piece of fabric thinner than thatof the collar body forming a finished point for the collar, saidterminal piece having an edge stitched to the said truncated edge sothat said piece, after such stitched attachment, forms a tip extensionof the collar body, said terminal piece having converging side edgesconstituting extensions of the converging edges of the collar body,bindings stitched over and enclosing the converging edges of the body aswell as the converging edges of the terminal piece, the edges enclosedby the bindings being inturned to the back of the collar body and beingstitched to said body.

3. A collar body provided with bindings secured along its lower andforward edges, and which edges converge towards the tips of the collarbody, the body having a truncated tip portion, a terminal piece in theform of a truncated triangle having a single-edge secured at one of thetruncated tip portions and forming an extension therefrom, said terminalpiece being composed of a thinner fabric than the material of the collarbody and having a pair of converging side edges, the terminal piecehaving its side edges folded along lines parallel to said edges to forma tip on the body, said bindings as well as the folded portions of theterminal piece being disposed against the back face of the body, andstitching for main taining said bindings at the rear of the body andconcealed from the front thereof.

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